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Printing new organs – sci-fi becomes true
Published: 15 February, 2010, 07:17
Edited: 19 February, 2010, 10:47
Patients in need of a transplant know they could face a dangerously long wait. But now scientists may have some good news on the horizon - as human organs in the future may simply be printed out.
This isnt a completely new idea, the method has been researched internationally for years now (altough the russian method may have some twists). Scientists have also made organs in other ways. Perhaps the most impressive are the blatters that have been grown from the original blatter cells of young childs (with deffect blatters), put into their systems and still work perfectly, 10 years after. But of course, this method opens up for the construction of far more complicated organs and, unlike Katrina who seems to thank God for this, I truly respect those who are making this dream a reality. Great to see that Russian scientist is taking part of this scientific adventure. The potential is huge.
It seems too good to be true, and anything that sounds too good to be true probably is. For now, science has claimed to have "mapped the human genome." All well and good, but Who can actually read the map? No one knows what all those codons actually "print out" and even if one could re-create an organ, the human histocompatabiltiy complex is so overwhelmingly intricate to just crank out "clones" of a persons organs and not have them rejected. Not impossible, but not so fast!
This is brilliant scientific discovery and a giant leap forward for medical research. God bless Russian scientists.